{"id":1321,"date":"2016-03-10T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/?p=1321"},"modified":"2017-03-20T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T11:35:12","slug":"engineering-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/2016\/03\/10\/engineering-minecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Post updated for 2017]<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday I&#8217;m running an activity around Minecraft at the university Science and Engineering Family Day. This post will have a link to some of the resources we&#8217;re using if families want to try them out at home.<\/p>\n<p>Handouts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/files\/2016\/03\/MinecraftSciEngBooklet.pdf\">Minecraft Sci &amp; Engineering Day Booklet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraftworldmap.com\/worlds\/xO3X4#\/4725\/64\/-3084\/-5\/0\/0\">London LIDAR Map<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraftworldmap.com\/worlds\/x0San#\/6035\/64\/-3067\/-6\/0\/0\">Southampton LIDAR Map<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraftworldmap.com\/users\/cgutteridge#\/627\/64\/64\/-8\/0\/0\">Winchester LIDAR Map<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraftworldmap.com\/worlds\/WV8CE#\/963\/64\/4611\/-4\/0\/0\">Portus <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minecraftworldmap.com\/worlds\/llivH#\/765\/64\/125\/-1\/0\/0\">Redstone Examples<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minecraftworldmap.com\/worlds\/Pb5VY#\/1200\/64\/-1090\/-5\/0\/0\">Brighton LIDAR Map (new for 2017)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minecraftworldmap.com\/worlds\/2tU8y#\/2901\/64\/-2682\/-4\/0\/0\">Winchester LIDAR Map (new for 2017)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.minecraftworldmap.com\/worlds\/JOGHr#\/157\/64\/261\/max\/0\/0\">Minecraft Archaeology (new for 2017)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Projects<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/railmodel\/\">Rail Model<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Art<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ventnor.totl.net\/\">Ventnor Seafront, Isle of Wight (my Minecraft art project)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Useful tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chunky.llbit.se\/\">Chunky &#8211; Renders raytraced pictures with reflections and shadows<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Modpack loaders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technicpack.net\/\">Technic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.feed-the-beast.com\/\">Feed the Beast<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mods.curse.com\/\">Curse<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Post updated for 2017] This Saturday I&#8217;m running an activity around Minecraft at the university Science and Engineering Family Day. This post will have a link to some of the resources we&#8217;re using if families want to try them out at home. Handouts: Minecraft Sci &amp; Engineering Day Booklet Maps: London LIDAR Map Southampton LIDAR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/webteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}